Sentence examples for inefficient substitute from inspiring English sources

But it is a very inadequate and inefficient substitute for health insurance – something Mr. Romney used to acknowledge – and every bit as much a violation of Republican principles, which oppose unfunded mandates, as the individual mandate that they abhor.

They resorted to barter or to other inefficient money substitutes (such as cigarettes).

Such an innovative technology may become important in sustainable agriculture to substitute inefficient application practices of agrochemicals resulting in their hazardous and expensive dissipation in the environment [2].

Electromechanical drives can substitute inefficient hydraulic systems for workpiece clamping and for the prestressing of saw blades, and provide the precondition for autonomous process control.

Concrete examples would be investments in intermodal transport hubs and new infrastructure that allow for a modal change in transport; to facilitate the use of wastes in the cement industry; audits to raise awareness in industry about available saving potentials; awareness programs to substitute inefficient old water boilers and heaters, etc.

"With more than 20 million homes off the grid, this means over $3bn £2bnn) is spent each year on these inefficient and unsafe energy substitutes".

In ALS inefficient RNA editing fails to substitute an arginine for a glutamine residue in the GluR2 Q/R site of glutamate AMPA receptors in the spinal motor neurons and is proposed as a mechanism responsible for motor neuron death [18].

Defective H3K4 demethylation at any stage in the germline cycle could substitute for the inefficient maintenance of the mark; that is, H3K4me levels would remain high.

The New Yorker, March 10 , 1928P. 61 An inefficient waiter who always serves a substitute instead of what you have ordered.

By Charles G. Shaw The New Yorker, March 10 , 1928P. 61 An inefficient waiter who always serves a substitute instead of what you have ordered.

Lizzie Widdicombe rightly points to agriculture as a leading cause of climate-warming emissions, and Rob Rhinehart, the creator of the food substitute Soylent, calls nonindustrialized farms "very inefficient factories" ("The End of Food," May 12th).